Rio Bravo '13 pics

[brian kirby]

Mom's pics from last weekend at Rio Bravo MX in Houston Texas.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/101415064605877881573/albums/5945367462013879089



Brian

[brian kirby]

Brian

[seanguthrie]

That track looks most excellent!  I will make sure to make it next year.

74 250 Hare scramble
73 CMF 6day
68 6day V213

[brian kirby]

GoPro of my 4 Vintage motos on the Penton 250 from Rio Bravo.

40+ Expert moto 1

https://vimeo.com/79271014

40+ Expert moto 2

https://vimeo.com/79271015

Sportsman 250 Expert moto 1

https://vimeo.com/79199198

Sportsman 250 Expert moto 2

https://vimeo.com/79271016



Brian

[Mick Milakovic]

Nice job Brian, but some of those jump landings looked a little too hard for my old knees!

Mick

[sixdazed]

Brian,Looks like you and the 250 are getting along nicely.I need to get mine off the back porch and into the garage soon.Nice pics.

[brian kirby]

I'm totally smitten with that bike. Its hard to believe that it feels so different than a 400 in the same chassis, riding that 250 is just effortless. Hands down the best vintage bike I have ever ridden, short of my 100.

Brian

[gooddirt]

second gear starts ?

[brian kirby]

Yeah. Rio has a concrete start pad behind the gate and I had trouble all weekend getting a good launch without lighting up the rear tire.

Brian

[Charles Gresham]

Great pics Brian.. thanks for sharing !


1974 Penton 250 Hare Scrambler
1976 Penton GS6 125
1974 Yamaha MX100
1973 Honda CL 100
1978 Suzuki RM 125
1983 Honda XL 185
1993 Yamaha RT 180

[firstturn]

Thanks for the great pictures.  Rio is a Great Track and a lot of top Pros(factory guys) from the  1970 never won there!  It is a grat track and the owner does a wonderful job on the upkeep.

Ron Carbaugh

[SouthRider]

Brian,

Try third gear, full throttle, and feed the clutch out as slow as possible. Almost impossible to fry a KTM clutch.

I pulled a hole shot that way against an XL650 in a flat track at Perry Mountain one year in the open class. I was on knobbies & he had special tires (you should have heard him come roaring around me on the second lap).

Even my Husky 250's responded well to the same start technique - had a top five overall time in the 1/8 mile acceleration special test at an Alabama 2 day one year (too bad I was only mid pack in the motos...).

Don't forget to get your head well past the front of the handlebars......

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1972 Penton Berkshire 100
1983 Husqvarna 250 XC
2011 Jayco 31.5 RLDS
2009 Chevy 2500 HD Duramax